Grown Up Days

So today Toby and I met up with the Marzonies to drive around the area and look for jobs. There wasn't really a plan so we just drove through the areas with the most to look at and Charity and I wrote down the business names we saw into our notebooks. Hopefully soon we will all be employed. Especially if Chris and Charity find something over this way. I'm looking forward to all the possible east side adventures Ypsi has to show us! Toby heard from one of the temp agencies we went to about a possible position at the public school, but it wouldn't start until the end of July. He's going to go back into the office on Wednesday for further testing, but continue to look for something that would start sooner. I have not heard anything from anyone. Go Me!

Today I:

- let toby hit the snooze button for two hours on our alarm

- checked my daily blogs and websites

- took a facebook quiz about keighty, failed with a 62%, sorry!

- had cheerios with bananas

- met up with chris and charity in ann arbor

- drove/rode around town

- had a wetzel pretzel and some too-sweet lemonade

- went to whole foods to avoid rush hour traffic

- picked out some wine

- drank much tastier strawberry lemonade

Later I will:

- eat a chicken and apple salad with purchased wine

- ooh and a side of jalapeno cheddar fritters, excited

- lazy around with toby

- watch a movie i've already seen a thousand times

- peruse the internet for jobs for the thousandth time

- unload the dishwasher

- update my etsy wish list, i have birthday in two months

- kiss toby goodnight, he's a good boyfriend

Goals?

- submit my application to two places i would normally shrug off

- sleep peacefully

Evening

photograph from sam santos

The Grillin was a lot of fun. I am stuffed and so incredibly tired, but it was a great feeling to know that so many people and so many business support this cause. A few of the local businesses really went above and beyond for it too, which fills me with so much pride to be a resident of this community. I had a gigantic grilled chicken sandwich, some amazing feta and pasta salad, a small mixed romaine salad, the best baked beans I've ever tasted, some mint bean salad and vanilla gelato with a brownie. It was also perfect weather for the festivities. There was a local bluegrass band playing and the kids were able to do some arts and crafts. I can't emphasise enough how much I love living here!

Needless to say I think walking around in the sun today though really took it out of us. Toby is already napping peacefully next to me and I'm about to head downstairs to read/ nap/ watch a movie. Once I'm rejuvenated I might venture out to take some photographs. I wanted to take some at the Grillin, but it was difficult to get in and out of my purse there. Oh well, I'm sure I will have plenty of opportunity at other festivals and events!

Can't Wait!

Awake

It's an earlier morning post, which means I didn't wake up in quite as rough shape as I have the past couple of days. Toby and I met up with Smoot and Danielle last night at The Brown Jug in Ann Arbor for a couple of drinks and then headed to Pinball Pete's for some arcade game and pool table magic. I of course spent all of my quarters on one game . . . ski ball! I think I would someday like to have ski ball in my house! Danielle and I also played this game where we had to have one hand on the joystick and hold each other's other hand while the joystick vibrated at different velocities. My arm still feels weird, but we managed to conquer it! At the end of the night we turned in the fifty tickets won and Danielle and I each got a lovely silver and green plastic ring that only fit our pinkies. What a great night though!

Today lady Dana and Kevin have made it possible for Toby and I to go to the Food Gatherer's Annual Grillin. Read about it here. - Food Gatherers. It's for a great cause and we get to go for free which would normally cost us sixty dollars each! I can already smell all the delicious food that will be available. Drinks will cost additionally, but I don't think I will mind. With Toby and I both unemployed currently, the event will help our poor old butts as well. I am definitely starting to get nervous about our money situation. I wish so much that something would come up for us, but nothing has yet and it doesn't look promising for the next couple of weeks. My savings is quickly plummeting and rent and my car insurance will be due the end of this month. Not to mention the electric bill from our last house and credit card payments.

I still think this move was a good move though. I love Ypsi and I love being around all of these great people. I feel so much more at home here and I'm sure once our finances fall into place, we'll be much much happier!

Today I:

- woke up

- stretched

- checked my usual blogs

- paid a couple of bills

- had a mild panic attack

- wrote this post

Later I will:

- make something up for breakfast

- eat free food with toby, lady dana and kevin

- enjoy being outside and mingling with people for a good cause

- listen to some local music

- come home and relax

Goals?

-take pictures

- be happy

* I will probably do more than what is listed under my later list, but it's too early to know really what will take place. Hence why my posts are usually done more mid-day.

** Perhaps this means two posts today?

Conjunction Junction

Apparently you have no function!

I'm curious how one is supposed to write an intelligent sounding answer to a question about a life experience that would directly correlate to a customer service experience using less than thirty five words in an online job application. If I left out punctuation and conjunction words, I suppose it could happen, but I would sacrifice showing any capablity or grasp I may have of sentence structure and the English language. Granted on this blog, I realize I am all over the place with grammatical errors and poor punctuation; especially this post because I'm typing it with high adrenaline and a caffeine related haste and it is primarily fueled by annoyance. Does that even make sense? Do I even care? Mostly, I'm surprised that this specific online application is for a position at a large, well known retail book store.

Today I:

- way way way overslept

- sipped on vegetable beef soup and watched monster squad

-snuggled with toby because sometimes i'm a cute girlfriend
- finished a million little pieces by james frey

- was disappointed to find out just how much of that book was fabricated

- walked to ugly mug to fill out aforementioned job applications

- drank kenyan coffee from a christmas mug

- started my above rant

- walked to nypd for a slice of pizza

- devoured that slice of pizza

Later I will:

- make sloppy joes!

- meet up with the smoots for some pool hall fun

- drink . . . again.

- contemplate relativity

- take some pictures if i'm not too shy

- make a kissy face

- ponder something and then forget what i was pondering

- fall asleep and dream of grilled cheese sandwiches again

Goals?

- kick some serious butt at the pool hall

- not be too let down when i don't

Wings and Things

It's an off kilter day.

photo from weird fish

Today I:

- woke up and felt disgusting and have therefor taken a total of three showers

- lazied about in bed because the wireless connection is better in there

- played mahjong til i felt disoriented from looking at all the tiles
- ate a grilled cheese sandwich at coney island

- turned left when i was supposed to turn right

- dropped off my application and resume at the too cool-for-me-to-work-at market

- wished clayton a happy tenth birthday, i am officially old

- got sassy with toby at borders, his words not mine

- drank a terrible white tea juice combination from the borders cafe

- sang badly to an oasis song in the car

Later I will:

- roadtrip to brighton with toby, lady dana and maybe kevin

- feign interest in the red wings game while being ridiculously interested in buffalo wings

- chomp food politely

- judge a patron at buffalo wild wings for being obese

- contemplate ordering a beer, but decide my guts cant handle it

- sip on water

- get tired and yawn a lot, maybe burp a few times too

- sleep forever minus forever

Goals?

- be good

- that is all

Thoughtful Thursday

If Toby is cleaning this usually means that I have done something to frustrate, anger or annoy him and he is doing his best to avoid confrontation of the matter. After cleaning, he will preoccupy himself with a book, play on his computer and/or put as much distance as possible between the two of us . While doing this he walks heavier, accentuates any movement made and when interaction is necessary, speaks rhetorically and abruptly, as if it is the biggest inconvenience in the world to do so. Eventually I will make my move to either lighten the situation, forge the gap between us, or sometimes just do the apologizing. Though this often makes me the person taking full responsibility, and often apologizing for things for which I am not sorry, I also feel that I often come out the bigger person.

And they say being passive aggressive is a flaw. . .

Today I:

- actually slept in until almost ten. i haven't done that since moving here, must be i'm finally adjusting to this new apartment.

- had flax plus waffles and syrup for breakfast and didn't crave orange juice for hours afterwards.

- took a quick shower, but sugar scrubbed my entire body.

- kissed toby.

- walked in the rain to the ugly mug for coffee with toby so he could do student loan stuff and i could do some reading. then walked back home in heavier rainfall.

- found out i am not actually connected to ypsi wireless, but hijacking some other persons internets. oops.

-changed into a monochromatic outfit of gray stretch pants and a gray tank top. impressive, i know!

- was tickled. literally.

- wrote a passive aggressive post about my passive aggressive relationship with a passive aggressive boyfriend. awesome!

Later I will:

- tumbl like crazy! rainy days always make me crave photography inspiration.

- concoct a dinner plan out of what grocery items we have in stock.

- consume at least two more cups of coffee.

- pee!

- watch one of our new MST3K tapes bought via Salvation Army.

- read the selby and wish i was cooler.

- feel bad about not being someone cooler.

- get over not being cooler and kiss toby.

- fall asleep to the sound of mopeds.

Goals?

- hang up some clothes

- be less ironic

- read beer advocate

Oberservations

I really like the community I just moved to. Walking and biking and farmers market-ing. although I haven't biked just yet, I still need a helmet for my clumsiness. a helmet that I will instantly cover in robot and star wars stickers. . . as soon as I unpack them.

I miss very little about Springfield, much less than I thought I would at least. just before I left I had this rush of sadness and desire to stay put, but I think that was me just becoming uncomfortable with the unfamiliar. As I have found out since being here only a week, this place is much more familiar to me than Springfield ever was in the entire year and half I lived there.

I'm good at collecting hobbies, but not so great at keeping them or excelling at them. I bought a ridiculously expensive camera, but I am too shy to go out and about to take pictures. I enjoy cooking and want to take classes, but I hardly ever like to eat what I make because food makes me a little nauseous. I want to do more with my art, but I'm afraid of criticism and I want to learn an instrument, but I'm lacking the patience. all of these things, I'm going to work on.

I worry about the most unnecessary things, but will turn a blind eye to things that I should be worried about. I don't like confrontation, but I don't like being walked all over either. Add this to the list of things that I should work on.

I'm really excited about my new life here.

And I love Toby a lot. . Not necessarily a new observation, but one that continues to grow. cheesy I know, but whatever.